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Monday “P!nk: Sung By Her” at Firebrand Theatre. A one night concert celebrating of the music of pop icon P!nk. For tickets and more information visit firebrandtheatre.org Tue…
The classical poets and dramatists knew that love compels the most heinous acts: infatuation led to the transformation of innocent maidens into laurel trees, river rushes, and weeping heifer…
RECOMMENDED Right or wrong, many put off family time until summer. Just as the weather gets warmer, we pack up the kids and jack up the credit cards in order to go somewhere else. Filament T…
RECOMMENDED There are opposing impulses at war in Ike Holter’s “Prowess”: talking shit and talking about shit. The result of this conflict is the feeling that Holter …
1 The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Goodman Theatre) Lorraine Hansberry’s prophetic second play could clearly see the writing hanging over the wall 2 The Art of Falling (T…
By Danielle Levsky When Peter Masterton isn't practicing a scene as the Green Goblin, he stands backstage and checks his smartphone, sometimes scanning his Facebook news feed or looking f…
RECOMMENDED The integration of improvisation, scripted text and fourth wall breaks is surprisingly smooth in Court Theatre's Midwest premiere of "One Man, Two Guvnors" after its successes…
From a purely economic perspective, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's "Tug of War: Foreign Fire" is a pretty good deal. With a running time equivalent to three full-length plays (sans roughly se…
RECOMMENDED "Body of an American" begins in 2007 with playwright Dan O'Brien listening to photojournalist Paul Watson being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air." Depressed and anx…
RECOMMENDED Coming off of more than a decade of dancing with Hubbard Street, and several years with River North Dance, Robyn Mineko Williams landed a spot in this publication’s T…
RECOMMENDED Playwright Jason Mitchell's farcical "The Boys Upstairs" sets up like a pitcher of vodka lemonades on a hot Sunday. Three college friends celebrate clothes, swanky parties, witty…
Monday “The Distance” at Haven Theatre. A show that explores the outer limits of “no matter what.” Through June 26. For tickets and more information visit haven…
Disney’s princesses are breaking out of their stereotypes and telling the world what they really think of Walt"sort of. “Disenchanted!,” with book, music and lyrics by Denn…
The making of a new musical is as daunting as a jigsaw puzzle. The challenge can be ratcheted up when all of the pieces seem to be the same color: a blue sky melting into a mountain stream. …
Franz Kafka and Philip Glass are a match made in heaven. They both experiment with form within the boundaries of classic genres, displacing the audience just slightly to the left or right of…
Fortysomething Bill can't free himself from business"the American religion. He's so obsessed about his failing sales job that he won't stop thinking about it even on New Year's Eve, when he'…
RECOMMENDED Dialectic"the creative interplay of seemingly opposing positions to produce advancement"is both the theme and structure of Scott Carter's absorbing and illuminating play. The dis…
Theatre Y's "3 Sisters" is both a continuation and adaptation of Chekhov’s play of the same name. Despite beginning at the end, we're thrust right back into the original, albeit with a…
RECOMMENDED "We don't kill them because they're bad. We kill them because we're bad," one of the seasoned vets of "The Secretaries" informs the new girl. As far as workplace bonding activ…
RECOMMENDED Raven Theatre’s production of "The House of Blue Leaves," written by John Guare and directed by JoAnn Montemurro, begins almost unnoticed. The live audience chatters over t…
1 Dry Land (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble) Take a deep breath, dive in and don’t stop till you reach the other side 2 Once in a Lifetime (Strawdog Theatre Company) A bittersweet yet fitti…
By Hugh Iglarsh The Haymarket affair remains not just a defining moment in Chicago history but also a contested and ambiguous one. The basic facts are well-established: at the end of a labor…
RECOMMENDED Much of the current offering from Esoteric Dance Project (EDP) centers on notions of the one and the many, the individual and masses, and of the permutations at the intersections…
RECOMMENDED "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" is steeped in the political, artistic and intellectual soup of the sixties. While Lorraine Hansberry evidently had no love (and little resp…
RECOMMENDED Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's celebrated "Little Shop of Horrors" is a tunefully amusing musical"and that's partly what makes it so scary. Telling its story of love and murder …
